On 01/07/2020 15:50, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Before we all get a little too excited here, I think that allowing
```
1 = x
```
as a sneaky way of writing
```
assert x == 1
```
would be a terrible mistake.
+1
One of Python's major virtues is that it's pretty easy to read and get
the gist of what's going on, even if the details take a bit more work.
If you have to second-guess every assignment, much of that virtue is lost.
--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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